Star Trek: Resurgence

When I bought this , I had no idea that it was a big portion of the ex Telltale team but it didn't take me long to see their finger prints all over this game.

It's an engaging well written story like all of Telltale games and it's certainly a good game but it sadly lacks the polish of Telltales work and has some slight issues that can cause major irritation that would of been solved with a bit more play testings.

Let's start with the bad bits.

1. This game has some serious lighting issues that make finding things quite challenging , I don't know if this is because I'm playing this on an Xbox one instead of my Xbox S but sometimes you can die in the game because you standing in the wrong spot and the light doesn't seem to go activated , who knows but it's a major irritations.

2. There can sometimes be a stuttering delay with dialogue it only lasts for about 2 seconds but it's frustrating.

3 Occasionally clue don't appear in your recorder , close it and the clues are back.

4. The graphics can sometimes seem quite low resolution in parts.

The Good Bits 1. The voice acting is as polished as you would expect.

2. The script feels very Star Trek.

3. You can still buy this game on disc, something that is becoming more challenging as time goes by.

4. It's feels very much a Star Trek game , use the phaser, fly a runabout ( even though it's on rails) and use a tricorder.

5. The characters really do feel like they were designed for Star Trek , it feels the right side of cheesy to be great entertainment.

Summary It's a good game that so easily could of been a great game with just a bit more polish , the only thing I wonder is, are the graphics better on a later console and does the sound stutter.

To put simply , it's a 7 but with just a modicum of play testing would of easily been an 8.

Finally after so long without, we have a star trek game that scratches the itch all trek fans have been having.

A game that puts you in the forefront of truly being in a true trek adventure on the final frontier.

Putting you first hand in the action and giving you the range to make choices and determine outcomes for yourself.

If you're like me and always wished you were a member of the crew when watching the show, then you will love this game.

I will concede some of the quick time events and setting oversights are irritating but it is all worth it.

With heaps of replay potential I look forward to my next run-through.

I hope more people get try out and experience for themselves this amazing game.

One of the worst games I've played this year. After my disappointment with Telltale's The Expanse, a similar choice-oriented game, I started expecting better from this game, but it doesn't even work properly. After I started playing the game, I realized that it was ported from a crappy console to PC, and they didn't even bother to update it months after it was released. Definitely not a game I would recommend playing on PC. As for the other aspects, you can't pay attention to anything else because of the bad optimization and a gameplay that's broken because of it, but the story doesn't seem to be very good either. It makes you choose a little bit of dialog and then it moves the scenes forward by adding ridiculous mini-games in between. The graphics sometimes look good and sometimes very bad and the quality of the animations is terrible. It's almost Mass Effect Andromeda-level mediocrity in facial animations. I don't understand why they bothered to release a broken thing on PC if you have no intention of trying to fix it. Even if I accept that it was problematic when it first came out, I can't accept that almost a year after its release, there are still no updates to fix it in any way..The game does not tell you about the characters, doesn't tell you the story, doesn't explain the terms in the universe, and acts as if you know everything about the Star Trek universe. On the other hand, it makes you do every little thing in the game as if it were a VR game. You pick up something from the ground, you pick it up, you scan the object, you place the object somewhere, it's a horrible gameplay. They extended the 2-hour game to 10 hours by doing this. I also don't understand why it's getting such positive comments and reviews despite all this. If you really like games like this, then you deserve this mediocrity.

This game is fine, it's not particularly bad or good. That said, I do not recommend it unless you're a big Star Trek fan desperate for a TNG-era style story that is new.

Mind you new does not mean innovative or necessarily creative, this feels like the same kind of story that you would find in older Trek games like Hidden Evil. The plot seems to come from a generic sci-fi story with Trek elements added to it, so much so it relies on space anomalies to cripple the ship's abilities and universe technologies from being used.

The characters are okay, alternating between the outsider first officer and a Boimler-like lower deck engineer, which is great to present the classic A/B plots and keep everything intertwined but neither are particularly interesting.

The gameplay is really bad, made of many stupid minigames that don't feel good to play and mostly ruin the narrative flow of the story. The puzzles are simple and mostly just a break from the story and the minigames like flying a shuttle or firing a phaser are not nearly as exciting as you'd expect them to be.

Tl;dr: you're better off watching a playthrough on YouTube than wasting your money on this.

I'm a big fan of all things Star Trek and was excited to play a game of this type in the Star Trek universe. The story was quite engaging and you can see that there were a lot of inspired elements in the game. Some cut scenes were surprisingly well directed and I felt compelled to play the game to completion. I've just played it the once and am not entirely sure how my choices affected my experience, though I have the impression that they did make some meaningful differences.

The game play itself is upsettingly simple. There were a few cool puzzles to solve, but for the most part, it felt like I was just propelled from cutscene to cutscene by pressing the trigger and a directional button.

In addition to that, the game is not very well polished and should not have been released in this condition. There are several instances where the dialogue is inconsistent (very muffled at some points or the tone of speech is inexplicably varied), audio is not consistent with the scene (the transporter sound when there is no transporter being used), dialogue does not match the scene (swapped with a soon followed scene), and too often the subtitles did not match the dialogue. And that's just a start.

I don't regret buying and playing this game. I was definitely entertained, but was also keenly aware throughout the experience that it was very sloppy.